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Speed_Kills
DJ is most certainly a one trick pony and a very good one at that.... and again there are others. In fact Cooks was brought in to play the DJ role. That’s exactly how McVay intends to use him
Now an argument can be made that a receiver with a more varied skill set or upside would be even better than Cooks. However, apparently McVay didn’t think so or we would still have Watkins
We;re just using the term differently. The way I use the term "1 trick pony," a player who meets that definition is not and CAN'T be productive the way Jackson is.
I;ve always understood the term "1 trick pony" as identifying players who, very unlike Jackson, may have deep speed but can't do enough of anything else well enough to keep defenders honest---they become too predictable.
The DJ role is not "one trick pony" seen this way. He;s a deep threat but that's not the same thing. A guy like DJ or Cooks has to be effective on enough routes and in enough different ways so that he can do a lot more than just run deep, which of course makes running deep when he DOES do it far less easy to predict or contain. It works the other way too. They are so skilled at deep routes it sets defenders up for them to break off on relatively shorter routes. Again Jackson and Cooks can do that, Avery and Givens couldn't.
On a semantics debate like this (that's not said negatively, this is literally a difference on how a term is used) 2 guys can just end up using the term in question so differently that the discussion can get caught up in that.
Either way, when I personally use (or read) the term 1 trick pony, I mean (or hear) something like this--a limited player who can't be an effective deep threat because they can't do enough other things well enough to set up the deep threat. That's Givens and Avery. It;'s not Cooks and Jackson
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Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/2018 05:58AM by zn.
